Workforce Health and Wellbeing Project

CIRAS Representatives Conference

Darryl Hopper4th November 2013

A bit about the ‘Industry Strategy Team’

The ‘Workforce Health and Wellbeing Project’ is being run by RSSB’s Industry Strategy Team

Within this team we also cover:

• Sustainable Development

• Safety Management Systems

Other areas of our work that you may be interested in include:

• Safety Assurance Guidance

• Accident and Incident Guidance

• Road Risk – CIRAS Reports have been well used in this area

A bit about Occupational Health

Occupational health issues are seen to have three fundamental elements:

• The effect of work on health (eg airborne contaminants, asbestos, musculoskeletal disorders, mental health) – CIRAS reports on cab Ergonomics have been considered within this group

• Fitness for work (eg safety critical tasks, drugs and alcohol testing, health assessments)

• General wellbeing (eg obesity, smoking, sickness absence management, rehabilitation)

Background to the project

The project so far…

• June 2011 RSSB highlights to its board the risks associated with poor health management

• April 2012 following widespread industry engagement and consultation the Workforce Health and Wellbeing Project is established

• 2012 – 2013 during Phase 1 of the work a baseline of information is gathered and some helpful tools are developed.

• 2013 – 2014 for Phase 2 the project team looks to develop a roadmap for health and wellbeing management within rail and to specify a health data collection framework.

Project Oversight

RSSB BoardThe RSSB Board is comprised of Chief Executives and Managing Directors from each constituent of the rail industry.

RSSB Project Management

ATOC Forums

Network Rail

FOC Companies

WHWP PWG The workforce health and wellbeing project working group provides strategic input

ISLG

Project Task Groups

Project Tasks

Trade Union Membership

Association of Rail Industry Occupational

Health Providers

Key: Oversight Stakeholder input

and direction Project Activities

ORR

Aims:

Phase 1: Prepare the ground and develop a platform to enable proactive health management by:

– Continuing to raise health awareness, build the case and appetite for proactive health management

– Understanding capabilities needed to enable proactive management of health

– Assisting rail companies with tools and information so that the industry is proactively responding to the health challenge

Phase 2: Looks to build on the phase 1 platform and set out industry’s needs to establish proactive health management by:

– Developing a roadmap to map out the capabilities needed to improve industry health and wellbeing performance

– Specifying the health data collection framework identified within phase 1

Phase 1 - reports and tools

Health and Wellbeing Roadmapping

Background and Aims of Workshop

• Purpose of the roadmap:

‘We are looking for a roadmap to bring about :

– commitment and understanding for a series of well-planned,

effective and prioritised tasks

– that a diverse range of stakeholders believe will improve health

and wellbeing management within the railway

– and therefore the health and wellbeing of the Rail Workforce and

the efficiency of the sector’.

Participants

Numbers:

100+ participants over three workshops

Who needs to have been involved for the outputs to have broad credibility?

• Immediate Roles: HR Managers, Health & Safety Managers, Occupational Health Specialists, Operations Managers

• Organisations: Train Operating Companies, Freight Operating companies, Network Rail, Infrastructure Contractors, Suppliers, Occupational Health Providers, Trade Unions, ORR, RSSB, ISLG, ATOC, Rail Industry Association (RIA), ARIOPS

• Influencers: Dame Carol Black, Nita Clarke, Bridget Juniper

What ideas do we need to present to the RSSB Board?

Morning: Scan (‘Landscape’)- Large group activity- Broad scope- Share and capture perspectives- Link, focus and prioritise

Afternoon: Probe (‘Landmark’)- Small group activity- Focused scope- Share and capture expertise- Organise, plan and action

Google Earth

S-Plan Workshop Process

Time

Next steps following the industry workshops

• Bring together the findings of the three roadmapping workshops

• Develop a graphic to bring out the main points for communication

• Present the roadmap to the RSSB Board

• Undertake outcome tasks:

• Develop industry health data collection

• Focus on OH Provider relationships

• Focus on voluntary standards

• Develop other tasks identified on the roadmap…

Breakout Session / Workshop

On your table there is a hand-out containing:

• A short brief about the workshop• A roadmap table to fill in • Appendix A – ideas to help with a vision of health

and wellbeing• Appendix B – a partially completed road map to help

consider what issues are important

Table to fill in – 1 per group

Appendix A

Appendix B

1. Select a speaker from your group. Fill in their workshop hand-out for this task

2. Brainstorm ideas for a vision for rail industry health and wellbeing (5mins)

3. Brainstorm the important health and wellbeing issues that matter to each of you (15mins). Put the ideas in the most appropriate place on the roadmapping table.

4. During the last couple of minutes talk as a group about what the most important issue is. Circle this issue on your roadmapping table.

5. Feedback to all, the group’s vision for health and wellbeing as well as the key element circled on the roadmap.

Key Steps

Any Questions?

For more information please contactDarryl HopperProject ManagerWorkforce Health and Wellbeing ProjectRSSBTel: (+44) 0203 1425389Fax: (+44) 0203 1425672Mobile: (+44) 07876 578981E-Mail: darryl.hopper@rssb.co.uk